(13.00-14.00) UK time
Chair: Dr Roberta Comunian
Paper 1:  Creative and cultural ecologies: top-down and bottom-up methodologies
Victoria Barker, Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University
Discussant:  Dr Nancy Duxbury, Simon Fraser University, Thompson Rivers University, University of Coimbra
​Paper 2: Making it up: adaptive approaches to bringing freelance cultural work to an ecologies discourse
Ali FitzGibbon, Queen's University Belfast and Ioannis Tsioulakis, Queen’s University Belfast
Discussant:  Dr Dan Ashton, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
(14.00-15.00) UK time
​Chair: Dr Tamsyn Dent
Paper 1: Cultural and creative ecosystems: A geo-computational approach.  An application to the West Kosovo region
Pier Luigi Sacco IULM University Milan; OECD Venice Office; Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, and metaLAB (at) Harvard, Cambridge; Massimo Buscema, University of Colorado at Denver and Semeion Research Center, Rome; Guido Ferilli, IULM University Milan; Christer Gustafsson,  Uppsala University; Giulia Massini, Semeion Research Center, Rome
Discussant: Dr Neil Lee, London School of Economics and Political Science and PEC
Paper 2: The role of multilevel co-opetition in the turnaround of a declining industry “the Kingdom of crystal” as a creative ecology
Petter Boye, Linnaeus University, Sweden            
Discussant: Dr Federica Viganò, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Libera Università di Bolzano
Chair: Dr Roberta Comunian
Workshop 1 (13.00-14.30) UK time
Paper 1: Creative and Cultural Ecologies: a review of theories and methods towards a new research field
Manfredi De Bernard and Roberta Comunian, King’s College London
Discussant: Dr Simon Moreton, Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE Bristol
Paper 2: Mapping Freelancers in the Creative Industries in the Edinburgh Region, a project by Creative Informatics
Inge Panneels, Edinburgh Napier University, Creative Informatics; Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh; Melissa Terras, University of Edinburgh; Ingi Helgason, Edinburgh Napier University
Discussant: Dr Martha Bloom, Research Assistant for the PEC at the Science Policy Research Unit  (SPRU), University of Sussex
Paper 3: From Creative Clusters to Cultural Ecosystems: Care, Community and the Politics of Urban Development
Jonathan Gross, Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King's College London, Tamsyn Dent, Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London and Roberta Comunian, Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London
Discussant: Prof. Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh Business School and PEC

Chair: Dr Tamsyn Dent
Workshop 1 (13.00-14.00) UK time
Paper 1: Cultural governance within and across cities and regions: evidence from the English publicly-funded arts sector
Mark Taylor, University of Sheffield; Griffith Rees, University of Sheffield; Dave O’Brien, University of Edinburgh.
Discussant: Dr Caroline Chapain, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham
Paper 2:  Situating post-industrial creative workplaces: Global aesthetics and local histories in creative reuse
Yosha  Wijngaarden, Assistant professor, Radboud University Nijmegen
Discussant: Dr Eleonora Redaelli, Planning, Public Policy and Management Department,University of Oregon
​ Workshop 2 (14.00 -15.00) UK time
Chair: Dr Jonathan Gross
Paper 1:  Understanding locational preferences of creative workers in urban and rural areas: towards framing creative systems of different places
Jani Kozina, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Nick Clifton, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University and David Bole, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Discussant: Dr Josh Siepel,  Science Policy Research Unit  (SPRU), University of Sussex and PEC 
Paper 2:  “Less ambitious, more meaningful”. The reframing of culture- and event-led urban regeneration policies across European cities
Enrico Tommarchi, University of Hull, Culture, Place and Policy Institute (CPPI)@hull.ac.uk              
Discussant: Dr Zoe Bulaitis, School of English, Drama and Creative Studies, University of Birmingham and PEC
​Workshop 1 (13.00-14.00) UK time
Chair: Dr Roberta Comunian
Paper 1: Evolving Wood Craft and Design Ecologies: materiality, knowledge and skills in South Tyrol
Federica Vigano’, Faculty of Education, Free University of Bolzano, Italy, Roberta Comunian, Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London and Lauren England, University of Dundee
Discussant: Dr Maria Lusiani, Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Paper 2:  Making space for multiple framings of artistic and cultural work; exploring the everyday dynamics of creative economies via “meanwhile” spaces for the arts
Paul Richter, Newcastle University; Emma Coffield, Newcastle University; Rebecca Prescott, Northumbria University
Discussant: Dr Annette Naudin, Birmingham School of Media, Birmingham City University
Workshop 2 (14.00 -15.00) UK time
Chair: Dr Tamsyn Dent
Paper 1: Košice: the role of community of post ECoC cultural centers
Barbora Tothova, Technical University in Košice, Faculty of Economics; Zuzana Révészová, Technical University in Košice, Faculty of Economics; Miriam Šebová, Technical University in Košice, Faculty of Economics
Discussant: Dr Mariangela Lavanga, Department of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam 
Paper 2:  The economic complexity of creative and cultural industries. An exploratory analysis for the UK and Italy
Chiara   Burlina, GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI),  Patrizia Casadei, SPRU, University of Sussex, Alessandro Crociata, GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute
Discussant: ​Hasan Bakhshi, Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre
Workshop 1 (13.00-14.00) UK time
Chair: Dr Roberta Comunian
Paper 1:  Cultural backstages: cases from the Barras area in Glasgow
Elahe Karimnia, Urban Research and Spatial Practice, Theatrum Mundi, John Bingham-Hall, Director, Theatrum Mundi and Fani Kostourou, Associate Theatrum Mundi
Discussant: Dr Dave O'Brien, School of History of Art, University of Edinburgh and PEC
Paper 2:  Amplifying stories of situated value in regional creative ecologies: A comparative analysis
Michael Johnson, Innovation School, The Glasgow School of Art, Madeline Smith, Innovation School, The Glasgow School of Art, Dr Catherine Morel, Audencia Business School de Nantes
 Discussant: Dr Nick Clifton, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University 
Workshop 2 (14.00 -15.00) UK time
Chair: Dr Jonathan Gross
Paper 1: The role and structure of alternative cultural production ecosystems in urban transformation: the case of Turin, Italy
Enrico    Bertacchini , Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Torino; Giangavino Pazzola, CAMERA; Francesco Puletti, University of Torino
Discussant: Dr Lauren England, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
Paper 2: Culture as a Key Element of Integrated Spatial Development Approaches: Insights from the Piraeus Av. Area in Athens, Greece
Georgia Tseva, Harokopio University and Pavlos Marinos Delladetsimas, Harokopio University
Discussant:  Heather Carey, Work Advance and PEC